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A new concept for spinning unmagnetized plasma is demonstrated experimentally. Plasma is confined by an axisymmetric multi-cusp magnetic field and biased cathodes are used to drive currents and impart a torque in the magnetized edge.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-05-31 C. Collins , N. Katz , J. Wallace , J. Jara-Almonte , I. Reese , E. Zweibel , C. B. Forest

We analyze the torque applied to a rotating magnetized sphere in a vacuum. It is shown that for the correct determination of one of the torque's component the angular momentum of the electromagnetic field within the body should be taken…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-24 V. S. Beskin , A. A. Zheltoukhov

The electromagnetic fields generated by a ring current around a Kerr black hole have been found. The acceleration of a charged particle by a force electric field along the rotation axis is investigated in the constructed model, as applied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Shatskiy

We present analytic calculations of the electromagnetic torques acting on a magnetic neutron star rotating in vacuum, including near-zone torques associated with the inertia of dipole and quadrupole magnetic fields. We incorporate these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. J. Zanazzi , Dong Lai

We evaluate the generation of magnetosonic waves in differentially rotating magnetized plasma. Differential rotation leads to an increase of the azimuthal field by winding up the poloidal field lines into the toroidal field lines. An…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alfio Bonanno , Vadim Urpin

Magnetic ratchets -- two-dimensional systems with superimposed non-centrosymmetric ferromagnetic gratings -- are considered theoretically. It is demonstrated that excitation by radiation results in a directed motion of two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 G. V. Budkin , L. E. Golub

Charged particles can be accelerated via surfatron mechanism along dc magnetic field by obliquely propagating electrostatic waves. In plasma, this mechanism can, in principle, produce an average parallel current, even when the wave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-11-22 I. Y. Dodin , N. J. Fisch

The literature has not converged onto a precise depiction of the magnetogenesis process for pulsars, and it is profitable to preliminarily but exhaustively assess the viability of the plethora of alternative proposals, before substantial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Fan Zhang

A magnetic vortex occurs as an equilibrium configuration in thin ferromagnetic platelets of micron and sub-micron size and is characterised by an in-plane curling magnetisation. At the centre, a magnetic singularity is avoided by an…

A constant homogeneous magnetic field is applied to a composite system made of two scalar particles with opposite charges. Motion is described by a pair of coupled Klein-Gordon equations that are written in closed form with help of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-17 Philippe Droz-Vincent

A theoretical description of vortex electrons interacting with electric and magnetic fields is presented, based on Lorentz transformations. The general dynamical equations of motion of a twisted electron with intrinsic orbital angular…

General Physics · Physics 2018-01-04 Alexander J. Silenko , Pengming Zhang , Liping Zou

Properly polarized and correctly timed femtosecond laser pulses have been demonstrated to create rotational states with a preferred sense of rotation. We show that due to conservation of angular momentum, collisional relaxation of these…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-04 Uri Steinitz , Yehiam Prior , Ilya Sh. Averbukh

Magnetars are a kind of pulsars powered mainly by superhigh magnetic fields. They are popular sources with many unsolved issues in themselves, but also linked to various high energy phenomena, such as QPOs, giant flares, fast radio bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Zhi-Fu Gao , Hao Shan , Hui Wang

Magnetic fields are amplified as a consequence of galaxy formation and turbulence-driven dynamos. Galaxy mergers can potentially amplify the magnetic fields from their progenitors, making the magnetic fields dynamically important. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-05 Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez

The nature of the magnetic structure arising from ion specular reflection in shock compression studies is examined by means of 1d particle in cell simulations. Propagation speed, field profiles and supporting currents for this magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Renaud Gueroult , Yukiharu Oshawa , Nathaniel J. Fisch

Pulsar "standard model" of rotating magnetized conducting sphere surrounded by plasma is generalized in its essential parts for the case of oscillating star. Goldreich-Julian charge density, electromagnetic energy losses as well as polar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Timokhin

The dynamics of a charged particle moving around a slowly rotating Kerr black hole in the presence of an external magnetic field is investigated. We are interested to explore the conditions under which the charged particle can escape from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-12 Saqib Hussain , Ibrar Hussain , Mubasher Jamil

A theoretical analysis of the anomalous diffusion transport mechanism suggests a possible connection between wall current drain and magnetic flux through the orbital trajectories of charged particles in a plasma submitted to a strong…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario J. Pinheiro

In this thesis, we consider the dynamics of vortices in the easy plane insulating ferromagnet in two dimensions. In addition to the quasiparticle excitations, here spin waves or magnons, this magnetic system admits a family of vortex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lara Thompson

We calculated the ellipticity of the deformed star due to the rotation or magnetic field. These two effects are compared to each other within general relativity. It turned out that the magnetic distortion is important for recently observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 K. Konno , T. Obata , Y. Kojima